Is the writing on the wall for writing?

If you haven’t heard of it, ChatGPT is a chatbot which will ‘chat’ to you, look for information and produce very well written texts on any subject you can imagine. It also has some clear uses for independent study of English: being a ‘conversation’ partner as well as a teacher correcting your mistakes and resolving your doubts! Check here for examples; it really is a remarkable thing. One question people are asking is whether this is the beginning of the end of writing, as we can just get a machine to do it for us! I sincerely hope (and think…) not. In this spirit, the quiz for this post is based on the vocabulary of writing. Please click on the picture to access the quiz and don’t use an AI to answer the questions for you 😉

Ed Taylor (Head of Studies at King’s Training)